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NASA, Kennedy Space Center Celebrate Moon Landing Anniversary


July 18, 2014 | WMFE, Orlando - Sunday marks the 45th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing.

[Buzz Aldrin on lunar surface. Image: NASA/Wikimedia Commons]

The moon landing is being commemorated by NASA and the Kennedy Space Center, which was the site of the mission launch.

An estimated 600 million people watched the live broadcast of Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin stepping onto the surface of the moon July 20th 1969.

With the Apollo 11 mission NASA had achieved the goal set by President Kennedy to land a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

It was the first of six manned missions to the surface of the moon.

Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A.

This Sunday, KSC will host Bruce McCandless II and Jack Lousma, both Capsule Communicators for the Apollo program and veteran astronauts.

NASA TV will also commemorate the moon landing with a panel discussion about the future of human space exploration.

The space agency is developing a heavy lift rocket with the aim of carrying astronauts to an asteroid or Mars. 

 

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